QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● explicit costs.
Answer: monetary payments for the use of land, labor, capital owned by
others
●● implicit costs.
Answer: opportunity costs of using owned resources
●● accounting profits.
Answer: total revenue - explicit costs
●● economic profit.
Answer: total revenue - economic cost
●● total product.
Answer: the total amount of output produced with a given amount of
resources
●● marginal product.
, Answer: change in total product / change in variable resource
●● average product.
Answer: total product / units of resource
●● fixed cost.
Answer: costs that do not change with the amount of output produced
●● variable cost.
Answer: costs that change with the amount of output produced
●● total cost.
Answer: fixed costs + variable costs
●● average fixed cost.
Answer: total fixed cost / output
●● average variable cost.
Answer: total variable cost / output
●● average total cost.
Answer: average fixed cost + average variable cost